May 2010 - Photography assignment - Vintage

**casil403** · 05-08-2010, 05:39 PM

Old Paddock at Cochrane Ranch:

**mbrager** · 05-08-2010, 07:20 PM

My father took this photo in old format 120 film. I can estimate the time frame because there are other pictures of me at about 8 years old. I scanned the negatives, did dust and scratch removal and added the frame. Vintage, yes. (There are no longer any grain elevators like these on the prairies.) Original, no.
Mike

**casil403** · 05-08-2010, 08:23 PM

Love the elevators Mike...my Uncle Joe used to paint them...he would travel all over Alberta and Saskatchewan to paint the old elevators.

**casil403** · 05-08-2010, 08:26 PM

**ericmark** · 05-09-2010, 02:12 AM

Oh the McDougall United Church is lovely. Not just subject but way taken one feels it would take you straight to alter.

**Marko** · 05-09-2010, 10:23 AM

I'm loving the variety here folks. Great job!

**mbrager** · 05-09-2010, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by casil403

Old Paddock at Cochrane Ranch:

This is a wonderful picture. I saw the picture on my desktop at first but later on I happened to be looking at the forum on my iPhone and noticed that there was a sepia background to it. But on my desktop in Firefox, the background is completely white and blends into the page, so I only see the wood fence and frame and the hill in the background. I checked in Google Chrome, where it is white as well, with no border visible to the picture. I far prefer this version. But in Safari on my desktop, the sepia, sort of noisy/grainy background is visible, right up to the borders of the photo. So I checked on my Macbook using Safari and Firefox. In both browsers on my Mac the sepia is present. Again it's much darker with the sepia tone. So I was wondering what you intended, and if this sort of difference in the way browsers render photos is common?
Mike

**casil403** · 05-09-2010, 03:20 PM

I'm not sure about the browser differences so maybe someone else could answer that. What I was going for was kind of the sepia old wild west type cowboy photo that I have seen many times. I thought the subject matter would work as that kind of shot and the weather might help contribute to the look of it. I think I got the look I was going for....thank you for the kind comments.

**Iguanasan** · 05-09-2010, 10:32 PM

Front Harbour, Chester, '53
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**casil403** · 05-10-2010, 08:12 AM

I've been eyeballing this thing for the past 2 weeks. Ancient cast iron furnace...I would love to have this thing in my new place (outside art piece of some kind I think, even though it is about 8 feet tall) and the ornamental fencing behind it....dare to dream.